"Is this a success?" Jia Zhou sat on the balcony with a smile on his face.
"They are probably acquaintances, and there is not much estrangement between them when talking and doing things." Xu Mu peeled the peanuts and spoke happily.
With Liu Wu... no, it's time to call him Nan Wang Dou Tong. The files presented by Dou Tong were actually about various terrains, streams, mountains and forests of Shu, and even the eccentric habits of the other two Shu kings.
All are recorded clearly.
This thing will be a sharp weapon for entering Shu in the future.
"In a few days, I will go to southern Sichuan." Xu Mu clapped his hands and put down the peanut shell.
"My lord, what if it's the Hongmen Banquet."
"Dou Tong left his accompanying brother in Bailu County. This means that he is probably going to be used as a hostage."
Jia Zhou was silent for a while and nodded.
"The Yu Pass is steep. My lord wants to enter Shu. He really needs to find a way to find another path."
"After asking, Dou Tong came from the south of Shu. He took the plank road of Antong. He lost more than ten horses and three escorts. Seriously speaking, if there is a lot of food and grass, there is still no way to enter Shu."
"If we use horses to transport it, it will not only be dangerous, but it will also take too long."
"My lord, what I mean is that if the army wants to enter the middle of Sichuan, it must first capture Yuguan."
"That's what it means."
Xu Mu stood up and stretched.
"May you travel south to Sichuan."
"The valley is hundreds of miles away, and the Xiangshui River is vast."
…
"My lord will sing the farewell to Shu." Jia Zhou smiled.
"Wenlong, you and I will eventually become Shu people."
"Of course, there is one more thing."
"I just got the news that Yuan An of Cangzhou has appointed my lord as the king of Shuzhou."
Listening, Xu Mu's face was startled.
"King of Shuzhou? Is he scared to death?"
"If I'm not wrong, it should be a plan to extend favor." Jia Zhou did not panic at all. "It won't be long before the other two kings of Shuzhou will join forces to resist the lord. The plan to defeat him one by one is useless."
"It's an unsolvable conspiracy, but it's also an opportunity for the lord. The master behind Yuan An should have a back-up plan. If the lord wants to go to southern Sichuan, I won't go. I'll stay here and help you deal with it."
"Thank you Wenlong."
"I wanted to buy another brocade bag with the village woman, but I found that no one was embroidering it." Jia Zhou smiled and said, "I just left a message directly. There are many mountains and forests in southern Sichuan and the land is barren. If you are in danger, you can think of some ways to borrow barbarians." The soldiers drive away the tigers and devour the wolves.”
Xu Mu earnestly handed over his hand.
Since meeting Jia Zhou, his path has become more and more wild. Instead of the little boss back then, he was chased to death.
"If you get Wenlong, you can defeat a hundred thousand soldiers."
Jia Zhou looked pleased and a little excited. He sat in the wind on the balcony and nodded slightly.
…
About three or four days later.
With only a hundred followers, he followed Dou Tong's more than ten people and began to ride lightly towards the path and plank road in the south of Shu.
The brother of the Southern King who was left behind cried and sent him all the way, as if explaining the funeral affairs, and told the guards returning to Shunan, "let the wife and children rest assured" and so on.
"General Xu, we are passing through the woods ahead."
Xu Mu raised his head and looked at a large stretch of majestic mountains not far in front of him.
To be honest, this was his first real visit to Shu. It can be regarded as a chapter that he is about to read in this other life.
"What the hell, there are so many dead people." Riding a tall horse, Si Hu bulged his eyes and pointed at the many half-buried corpses in the forest.
"In recent times, barbarians have been provoked and often enter the southern Sichuan region to massacre villages." The accompanying guard choked with sobs.
"My lord, there is nothing I can do. Southern Sichuan is barren, and the 20,000-strong army has exhausted all its strength. Many remote villages cannot be taken care of, and they will be massacred by the barbarians in just a day or two."
"Didn't you say you can recruit barbarian soldiers?"
"Southern Sichuan is poor." The guard sighed.
As the king of Xiao Shu, Dou Tong went to sell horses by himself.
Xu Mu was silent in his heart. Putting him in Dou Tong's position, he was probably in a doomed situation.
He knew that Dou Tong must have thought about trying his best to capture the counties of the other two kings. However, with a small army and few generals, he could not succeed at all and could only rely on natural dangers to defend it.
Under this general trend, if it continues like this, it will not be long before Shunan will be swallowed up entirely.
"General Xu, we are about to cross the plank road. We should lead our horses and go."
More than a hundred figures on horseback, under the warning of the guards, dismounted and led, preparing to step onto the plank road paved with wooden piles.
It's probably too old and a bit old. When I stepped on it, my body was so light that it seemed like I was about to fly.
"If you ride more than three in each round, I'm afraid it will shake badly."
Xu Mu took a breath and looked at the plank road that was at least half a mile long. It was swayed by the mountain wind from time to time.
"Don't... look down." The guard gritted his teeth.
"Why can't you look down?" Si Hu stretched his head, and when he saw layers of white bones under the plank road, he smacked his lips and retracted his body.
"In order to build this plank road, at least a thousand people fell to death. But my lord said that without this plank road, the people of Sichuan would be trapped to death." The guard sighed, took the lead, and led the horse forward slowly.
After crossing the plank road, he knelt down and worshiped on the other side. He worshiped for a while before getting up.
"General Xu, be careful."
"know."
Xu Mu is not afraid of heights. In his eyes, the Ferris wheel and pirate ship in the amusement park are just like the rocking car in front of the supermarket.
In about two hours, almost all the people and horses, numbering more than a hundred horses, had walked along the plank road, and no one fell off the cliff.
Except Si Hu.
Si Hu was scratching his neck and raising his sweaty face.
"Brother Mu, I remembered something. Xiaofu lost in the fight yesterday. I will go back now to teach him peerless martial arts——"
"You're a fool, come here slowly." Xu Mu was speechless.
If you are careful on this plank road, it won't be a big problem.
…
"After passing the plank road, there won't be much danger in the rest of the way." The guard showed a helpless smile, took a wine gourd from the trousers under the horse, and handed it to Si Hu, who was still wiping his sweat.
Xu Mu raised his head and vaguely saw the corpse again in the forest.
He had probably just been killed, and blood was dripping all over the floor.
The dozen or so Shunan guards accompanying him seemed to have grown accustomed to the strange situation. They sighed silently and dismounted to bury the person.
"Barbarian dogs use heavy-handed weapons and like to smash heads."
As they could see, the dead passers-by had their brains splattered and their faces covered in blood.
"Last year I had a man named Pao Ze, who was a great hero. He was hit twice by barbaric dogs, but he still refused to die. He took a knife and stabbed three or four barbaric dogs in succession."
"Later, when I was waiting for rescue, I found out that the reason he refused to die was because there were two babies hiding in the woods behind him."
"But it's too late and the baby is dead."
More than a dozen guards looked sad, "Decades ago, when the dynasty still had military power, the barbarians did not dare to move. They did not even dare to go out of the mountains and forests. Life was not very good at that time, but at least they could survive."
"But now, things have just happened in the dynasty, and the wild dogs have come out."
One of the guards looked up, his eyes misty.
"My Lord said that no matter where you are, even if Shuzhou is still a foreign state from the dynasty, there is one truth that will never change."
"If you fall behind and are weak, you will be beaten."
